, 1887-07-03

sunset Headed Maiden Is Never stupid.
Glowing Locks on the astnes-In Lit
ernture
Rcd hair! There's no such thingT"
exclaimed o young and well known artist
Who hes passed many days in sunny
Italy tho other afternoon as he prom
cnGdcd up Fifth avenue with an equally
well known swell. They had just come
from lunching at Dclmonlco's at the
swCll's expense, and tho latter had just
remarked, after the manner of his kind:
by Jovc, just look at that wed headed
girl crowssing oyah heah; she gives me q
sunstroke, dontcher know"
why ont people call colors by their
proper nnmes'h went on the cxnsperated
artist us they passed tho Brunswick.
But, my deah fellah, dontcher know
whn Navy Anderson says, A wose by
any other name would smell as sweet
and If wed hair isn't wed, why, it looks
wed all the same" and as this logic
seemed irrefutable there was silence until
the two men disappeared within the por-
tells of the Knickerbocker club.
The reporter, who had overheard this
conversation, determined to unsolve the
mystery Of red hair, and at dusk sought
the artist in his studio TO find out what
color red hair was. The artist was look
ing picturesque and kind, and was pleased
TO mi on his palette three different
shldes of red, three of yellow n three
of brown.
we OR THREE L MIXED.
"'Now," said he, with the air of the col
lege professor who pauses to catch the
class with some startling question, ''polnt
me out the color that is like red hair
Tn reporter couldn't do it. He lowered
about the orange color as the small boy
- -s-. 49, - I'LL -
touch 1t. Hc almost singled out one of
the sickly looking browns, but the reds he
skipped entirely.
give 1t up"
Thought you would - said the artist,
condescendingly. "What people call red
hair is a mixture OF two or three colors,
according to the shade of red. Now, look
here. If l dab my finger in this yellow
and mix 1t with that red, what do l getY'
"Why, exactly the color of hair the girl
had today
81 told you So" said the artist, ''and
don't let any one ever convince you that
there is such a thing Us real red hair.
Call it red II you choose, but don't think of
it as the same color as a train lantern or q
coaching parasol, because you will be way
off. Adelaide Nelson had red hair, you
know, one of the most beautiful tints, and
Willie Winter spoke of it as the FURNISH
ed gold that hoated around her royal
head, SO If you choose to take that term
o will be nearer tho truth"
1t is said by those who ought to know,
and no one has co%ntradicted the state
ment, that a red haired girl is never q
stupid girl. She is always quick of speech
and quick of action. Red hnir brings
with 1t q quick intelligence and generally
great sensibility. When it comes with
blue eyes and brown brows and lashes the
owner is OF u sentimental tur OF mind
and usually very musical; with brown
eyes and dark lashes the red headed girl Is
noted for her beauty OF complexion-gen-
orally an ivory white-hcr love of exercise,
and is very frequently endowed with great
dramatic ability.
A STRONG, EMOTIONAL NATUR
Red hair always goes with n strong, emo
tional nature, and the red haired girl
laughs and cries at the theatre when her
black and yellow haired sisters sit silent.
She Is a c%reatur quick to anger, easy to
please, q lovable darling when she likes
you, but sharper than q two edged sword
and as bitter as early ~gooseberries when
she doesn't.
"who are our red headsA girls and
womenfr
Those on the stage are well known. Mrs.
James Brown Potter is perhaps the most
interesting. Her hair is considered her
greatest beauty. 1t isn't the "reddish'
red hair, but it looks like bronze, touched
with q tint of golden dame here and there.
Mary Anderson, who has light brown hair,
by the way, raves over Mrs. Potter's hair
and wishes hers was like 1t.
Kate Claxton has what is called real
red hair-the bricky, carroty, dark red
tint-but IT is not q bit unbeooming. It's
so soft and silllen, SO plentiful and curlS
in loose ringlets, and then it has been such
a salvation to her, SO she says for when
fire meets fire they run apart, and she
owes her miraculous escapes from burning
hotels to her rudy hair.
In the literary world rcd hair Is in
tensely admired. Emerson loved it, James
Whitcomb Riley has written many poems
on 1t and in one calls it ''nut brown hair
with q golden gleam, " and Dante Gabrielle
Rosetti's wife, who died when very young,
had hair Of n yellow red, long and curling.
He buried all his poems with her, but the
friends who had wished for his fnme had
them removed n few years afterwards and
found that the beautiful red hair had
grown and twined itself all about the
manuscript.
In our literary world OF to-day there are
many women with red hair.
In the social world there are many red
headed girls and women who are both
bellies and beauties.
Among the great army of girls who
earn their living in the large dry goods
stores there are many with red hair which
society bellies would give n great deal of
money to possess.
A lady artist gives a few hints as to
h colors red headed people should
wear:
Those who n hair yerging on brown
look we'll in anything. Most red headed
people should avoid crimson; pink is be-
coming to pale golden red hair and n very
fair complexion; green of all shades to all
shades of red hair; blue likewise; yellow
to be avoided except by those with auburn
hair; black especially becoming; also Law
ender. New York Journal.
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